Paul William Milhouse (31 August 1910,

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- 12 March 2005, Franklin, Indiana)Profile
at University of Indianapolis website was an American

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of the

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(E.U.B. Church), elected in 1960. When he died at the age of 94 he was the last surviving U.M. Bishop elected by the E.U.B. denomination (which merged with the

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in 1968 to form the

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Education

Milhouse earned his undergraduate degree from Indiana Central College in

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. He earned divinity degrees from American Theological Seminary in

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. He later received a

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degree from Indiana Central, as well.

Episcopal ministry

Milhouse was elected a bishop by a special mail-in ballot in November, 1960. He spent eight years supervising E.U.B. churches in the denomination's Southwestern Area (with offices in

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). In 1968 he was assigned to the

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Area of the (new) United Methodist Church (U.M.C.). He was President of the U.M.C. Council of Bishops, 1977–78. He retired in 1980.

Ordained ministry

Prior to his election to the episcopacy, Milhouse was a

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of churches in

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, the associate editor of the E.U.B. magazine ''Telescope-Messenger,'' and a staff executive of the E.U.B. General Council of Administration. In retirement he served as bishop-in-residence at Oklahoma City University (1980–91), and at the University of Indianapolis (1991–98).

Death

When he died in 2005 he was survived by his wife, Mary Frances Noblitt Milhouse, whom he married in 1932. Two daughters also survived: Mary Catherine Hauswald and Pauline Joyce Vermillion, as did a son, Paul David Milhouse. Bishop Milhouse's sister, Dorothy Jacobs, also survived him, as did seven grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Selected writings

*Nineteen Bishops of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, Nashville, The Parthenon Press, 1974.

References

*United Methodist News Service. *Milhouse, Paul W., Nineteen Bishops of the

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, The Parthenon Press, 1974.

External links

Photo of Bishop MilhousePaul Milhouse, last former EUB bishop, dead at age 94 (United Methodist News Service)
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